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Lucy Robinson is Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) in Modern British History at the University of Sussex and author of Gay Men and the Left: How the personal got political (MUP 2007). She works on a number of contemporary history projects including the open access learning resource and archive: Observing the Eighties. She is currently writing a book about time, pop and politics in the 1980s.

This panel looks at the role of popular culture in the politics of race and class in Britain and France between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s. This period demarks the collapse of the post-war settlement. It also encompasses the rise of new generational identities that intersect with location, race and class. These subcultural identities found […]